Tex. Prop. Code § 54.025 · Subchapter B. BUILDING LANDLORD'S LIEN
DISTRESS WARRANT.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
The person to whom rent is payable under a building lease or the person's agent, attorney, assign, or other legal representative may apply to the justice of the peace in the precinct in which the building is located for a distress warrant if the tenant:
(1) owes rent;
(2) is about to abandon the building; or
(3) is about to remove the tenant's property from the building.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3560, ch. 576, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1984. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 48, Sec. 10, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PR/htm/PR.54.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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